Create your own Apple iPod advertisement.– It should be similar in style to the one shown at the beginning of this lesson.– Your ad should be cut to any music track of your choice.– Your ad should be cut to any music track of your choice.– It must have an animated background.– It needs to… Continue reading Week 25 – Advertisement in After Effects
Work through my sunrise example step-by-step. Upload your version of this project to your WordPress blog. Please note, you will make a better impression if you make this animation your own. Don’t be scared to take things a little further and experiment. Following the tutorial proved quite useful but also a bit challenging, as I… Continue reading Week 24 – Creating an Animation in After Effects
Create a character. This character can be a letter, a person, an animal or any type of illustration, use your imagination. This character will play the main role in your animation. Take this character and draw it in five different exaggerated poses. In each of these poses the character has to express some kind of… Continue reading Week 23 – Applying Basic Animation Principles
I would like you to create a mood board and storyboard using a word and its meaning as the concept. For example, you could use the word “prop”. You could then use the “r” to prop up the “p” that keeps falling over. That’s just to give you an idea, be creative and use a… Continue reading Week 22 – Visualise Your Ideas
If the idea is at the heart of everything, then I would like you to think of a movie that you love. Then look at its current title sequence and come up with a new one. Sketch up the rough idea in the form of a storyboard. Your storyboard needs to be at 30 frames… Continue reading Week 21 – Playing With Ideas
Draw a diagram of your preferred workflow and explain why you take certain steps. The most important thing for me is to create backups of all my images (and files in general). While I used to do this by importing RAW files to my computer and making a copy of the import folder to an… Continue reading Week 20 – An Introduction to Postproduction
Part 1 – In your own words, describe the procedure of planning a fashion shoot. You don’t need to go into too much detail, a short outline will do. In short, the entire process of planning a shoot can be summarised into six different steps. First, decide upon a concept. Draw inspiration from things around… Continue reading Week 19 – Planning a Fashion Shoot
Name the three most important components of visual identity. The name, the logotype or mark, and the colours. Describe the difference between logotype and signature. The logotype is the brand’s name presented in one single specific font, while the signature is the logotype presented with the brand mark in such a way that is stylistically… Continue reading Week 12 – The Components of Visual Identity
Consider the tips on Inspiration given in your prescribed book and create a name for an ice cream. The ice cream has a range of different flavours, but the unique aspect it should communicate is the fact that it is the coldest ice cream in existence. Now come up with five name options for this product (you should not… Continue reading Week 12 – A Knack for Names
Watch the movie “The Greatest Movie Ever Sold” (2011). 1. Do you think the movie provides insight or detail into what drives product placement in entertainment? If so, what have you learnt from that? If not, how would you change aspects of the movie to reflect insight on this? 2. What have you observed about… Continue reading Week 11 – Having fun with brand identity